Slimming pocket panel for jeans

ABSTRACT

(A) The field of this invention is in apparel, specifically women&#39;s jeans.
         (B) The technical problem solved by this invention is creating a slimming stomach panel for jeans.   (C) The solution to the problem is using the non-stretch cotton pocketing material of the front pocket bags to denim and enlarging the width of the pocket bags so that the sides of the pocketing material can be sewn into the side seams and into the front zipper placket seams of the jeans.   (D) The principal use of the invention is as a stomach shaper and slimming panel for women&#39;s jeans.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application was originally filed Dec. 23, 2005 for a Design patententitled Women's Reducing and Shaping Jeans, application 29/245,405.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The inventor started in 2004 to change the fabrication and washtechniques of women's denim jeans so that they would be slimming. Theinventor used the non-stretch cotton pocketing which made up the frontpocket bags but instead of letting the pocket bags just hang from thewaistband as in all other jeans, the inventor increased the width of thepocket bags and sewed the edges into the side seams and into the frontzipper seam so that when the jeans are zipped up a restraining panel iscreated pushing the entire stomach area in. The inventor has beenmanufacturing and selling her jeans with this slimming pocket panel from2005 to the present. The inventor applied for a design patent on Dec.23, 2005 but evidently the application was considered abandoned at somepoint. The inventor's slimming jeans were hugely popular and sheultimately went to QVC on Sep. 13, 2013 and started selling aChinese-made version of her jeans using her slimming techniques on Oct.4, 2014. About 6 months after her first TV appearance, the inventornoticed that a pitchwoman from another QVC company said her jeans usedthe most brilliant pocket panel invention so the inventor immediatelyresearched the status of her pocket design patent. She discovered thatit had inadvertently been considered abandoned so immediately petitionedto reinstate it; the petition to reinstate was granted and theapplication went forward. It was then discovered that the applicationshould have been for a utility patent, not a design patent, because thepocket panel is purely functional and was designed specifically toreduce the appearance of the stomach area so then the inventor attemptedto convert the application to a utility patent from a design patent. Itwas determined after a lot of research and discussion with the US PatentOffice that the only way to do this was to file a continuationapplication as a utility application. (The inventor's design patent forher Slimming Wash Pattern on Jeans was issued on Feb. 6, 2018.)

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The non-stretch cotton pocketing used to create the front pockets injeans is resized to be wide enough to stretch across the entire front ofthe jeans and is sewn into the side seams of the jeans and into thefront zipper seam so that when the jeans are zipped up a slimming panelis created that pushes the entire stomach area in.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING

The drawing is an inside-out view of the front of jeans showing thewaistband, zipper placket, position of rivets and buttons, thehorizontal and vertical seams of the pocketing and the shape of thepocket bags. The vertical seams along each side the zipper placket showthat the pocketing bag is sewn shut so that items in the pockets don'tmigrate all the way to the zipper. The curved seam mimicking the outershape of the pocket bag is where the back part of the pocket bag is sewninto the denim; the front part of the pocket bag is sewn into the denimon the front part of the jeans creating the pocket itself. The drawingshows that the pocketing fabric is wide enough to stretch across theentire front of the jeans and that the side edges of the pocketing aresewn into the side seams of the jeans and that the inside edges of thepocketing are sewn into the front zipper seam. This is a ReplacementDrawing Sheet and consists only of FIG. 1 with no broken lines, arrows,texts, indicia or labels.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The slimming pocket panel for jeans takes the non-stretch cottonpocketing which makes up the front pocket bags of jeans but instead ofletting the pocket bags just hang unattached, the inventor increased thewidth of the pocketing and sewed the edges of the pocket bags into theside seams and into the front zipper seam so that when the jeans arezipped up a restraining panel is created pushing the entire stomach areain while at the same time the pockets remain functional pockets.

DRAWING

A front view of jeans turned inside-out so you can see the pocket liningwhich has been cut so that it is wide enough to stretch across the frontof the jeans and is sewn into the front zipper seam and into the sideseams.

I claim:
 1. The functional design for Slimming Pocket Panel for Jeans,as shown and described.